I am a self-motivated, low maintenance student, very interested in the natural environment, and who loves to continue learning in meaningful ways, and help create useful digital tools to enhance the learning experience
I have extensive experience with coding using R, expecially with data visualization and mapping techniiques, often learning new method through self-researched knowledge as the need arose.
My long-standing, keen interest in local Garry Oak Ecosystems, including helping remove invasive species and plant native species in a variety of local restoration projects, and while also observing changes over time, I am intrigued by learning how to visualize monitoring measurements to see if the data can help recognize if there are any patterns of change over time and location.
I have already spent more than 30 hours (during August 2025), creating, cleaning, formatting, and filtering example data (Malloff & Shackelford, 2024), and then reviewing and learning the new-to-me R code I would need to complete this project. I feel confident I will be able to learn any other R code as will be deemed needed after consultation with HAT, and receiving HAT DATA to analyze its structure and formats
I can also assist HAT with any raw data clean-up as needed, including creating R code for calculating any indices from the measurement data
(see Gantt Chart for proposed timeline and Mermaid Flow Chart for Methods Workflow)
Continue to research and learn how to code in Shiny reactively in order to make interactive data choices (e.g. a drop-down list of Sites) respond to a prior data choice (e.g. Subregions), in order to filter the results of specific interest. I’d like to extend these interactive choice reactions to the selection of monitoring variables being measured in order to be able to make custom-made visualizations and analysis with only a few clicks
Sign any data confidentiality agreements as may be required by HAT
Consult with HAT restoration monitor team to explore and understand the nature of the collected data, data format (forms, spreadsheets), the variables that are being measured, any indices to be calculated using the collected data, what questions they would like to explore with the data
Create a Project folder, with subfolders for R scripts, raw data, processed data, images, reports, download a copy of the current data (including any meta data e.g. measurement units, description of measurement variable, date collected, etc)
Clean data, check for errors, inconsistencies, data quality, calculate values from raw data measurements
create file and variable naming protocols
Create data visualization plot charts that appropriate to reflect the nature of the variables being measured
Documents my methods, successes, and failures in the process of the project
Continual research for finding appropriate R coding methods, and to contribute to writing my final paper
data
| Subregion | Site | Land.Manager | Main.Restoration.Type | Restoration.Intensity | Area.ha | Lat | Lng |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf Islands | Anniversary Island | GINPR | herbivore reduction | high | 4.39 | 48.82292 | -123.1823 |
| Gulf Islands | AVNR | Saltspring conservancy | herbivore reduction | minimal | 20.54 | 48.80351 | -123.4425 |
| Saanich Peninsula | Bear Hill Park | CRD | invasive removal | low | 3.80 | 48.54639 | -123.4078 |
| Gulf Islands | Brackman Island | GINPR | invasive removal | high | 4.41 | 48.71897 | -123.3864 |
| Saanich Peninsula | Camas Hill | HAT | invasive removal | high | 10.10 | 48.40173 | -123.5975 |
| Gulf Islands | Crows Nest | Trinity Western University | herbivore reduction | high | 15.34 | 48.78237 | -123.4612 |
| Subregion | Site | Proportion_of_native_species | Cultural_species_richness | Exotic_species | Trampling | Herbivory | Composite_Index | Year | Percentage_ns |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf Islands | Anniversary Island | 0.94 | 2.71 | 0.17 | 5.00 | 1.14 | 1.8 | 2023 | 94 |
| Gulf Islands | AVNR | 0.55 | 1.30 | 57.19 | 4.70 | 36.50 | 0.6 | 2023 | 55 |
| Saanich Peninsula | Bear Hill Park | 0.62 | 1.86 | 24.46 | 7.57 | 9.50 | 1.0 | 2023 | 62 |
| Gulf Islands | Brackman Island | 0.77 | 2.80 | 11.17 | 5.40 | 0.00 | 2.0 | 2023 | 77 |
| Saanich Peninsula | Camas Hill | 0.61 | 2.43 | 27.19 | 7.71 | 4.71 | 1.4 | 2023 | 61 |
| Gulf Islands | Crows Nest | 0.66 | 1.07 | 31.51 | 1.64 | 26.71 | 1.0 | 2023 | 66 |